Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/01

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Subject: RE:[Leica] Digital Leica M
From: Félix López de Maturana <fmaturana@euskalnet.net>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 00:31:02 +0200

>I'm starting to think that Leica should just cut it's loses and make a
> Foveon chipped
> digital M, regardless of it being backwards compatible or not. They
> could keep the traditional
> shape/size and come up with a new set of lenses. There would probably
> be an enormous outcry,

I rather believe that Leica could produce a new rangefinder digital body
that would use the M lenses. I think that Austin Franklin has, many
times, explained the impossibility of adapting a working digital captor
to a M body for the angle incidence of the light on the sensor, I think.
But as one of the big values of the M line are the M lenses, a new body
could be manufactured from scratch able of using the M lenses and
keeping the general aspect of the M body. The bigger the sensor the
better...Just my opinion...

Felix


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